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Dinosaurs 2: What Were Dinosaurs Like?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students compare and contrast dinosaurs to animals that are alive today through basic research.
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The Salamander Room

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students examine how each animal's habitat provides what that animal needs for survival. They discuss what an animal needs to survive-food, shelter, water, and space.
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Physical Adaptations in Ice Age Mammals

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the body parts in Ice Age mammals that allowed them to survive. They answer questions as a class and discuss. They examine photographs of the animals as well.
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Zoos and Captive Breeding

For Students 6th - 8th
After reading pages 470-472 of an unspecified textbook, students compare statements about zoos and captive breeding to information presented in text for statements of truth. Students change statements that are false so that the...
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Reading Comprehension - Consolidation

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read and complete a science cloze activity passage and then complete matching and short answer responses.
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Endangered Animal Power Point

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners construct a Powerpoint presentation on endangered animals. In this technology instructional activity, students use the Internet to gather research notes on an endangered animal. Learners use an outline to create a Powerpoint...
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Learning and Conditioning

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In this psychology worksheet, students write short answers to 5 questions on learning, types of conditioning and response to stimuli.
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Proofreading

For Students 4th - 8th
In this proofreading activity, students label verbs and subjects and edit paragraphs. Students complete this for 3 paragraphs on this activity.
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Chalkboard Challenge

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this PowerPoint, students compete in a quiz show game similar to Jeopardy in which they generate questions to match science facts in a number of categories. Science concepts covered include plants, animals, and matter. Due to the vast...
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All About Reptiles

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Young scholars examine different kinds and characteristics of reptiles, and demonstrate reading comprehension skills, including reading strategies, inference, literal meaning, and critical analysis.
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Rock of Ages

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a video, the Internet and hands-on activities to explore how to determine the age of rocks and fossils based on radioactive decay data.
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Species at Risk: Recovery Teams to the Rescue!

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discuss how certain species and plants are deemed endangered. They work together in conservation recovery teams to research an endangered species. Then they explore efforts to make sure that the existence of these species...
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SOS!

For Teachers K - 4th
Students examine natural and man-made threats to sea turtles. They create sea turtle mobiles while studying the range, environment, predators of and threats to sea turtles.
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Tortoise Tales

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students read journal entry from a Gal??pagos field researcher, find examples of five ecological relationships (competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism) and take notes on the details they find in the entry using a...
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Endangered Species

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners define the terms endangered and threatened. They identify the factors that can cause species to become endangered. They discover how animals are protected by the Endangered Species Act.
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El Medio Ambiente, An Environmental Awareness Project

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Pupils investigate environmental issue in Hispanic country, use readings from textbooks or other sources, prepare environmental awareness poster that focuses on issue of investigation, and create poster by cutting and pasting photos from...
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Identifying Dinosaurs

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students investigate basic information about dinosaurs. They listen to the book, "My Visit To the Dinosaurs," explore various websites, take an online quiz, and play an online dinosaur game.
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Acrostic Animal

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen as the teacher describes how an acrostic poem is written. They research an endangered animal of Puerto Rico. Students write an acrostic poem as a class, and then individually about the animal they research. Students...
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Changing Ecosystems

For Students 7th - 12th
In this ecosystem instructional activity, students will review terms associated with succession in an ecosystem plus the various relationships between organisms. This instructional activity has 5 matching, 9 true or false, and 6 short...
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Treasure Hunting for Volcanoes

For Students 7th - 9th
For this volcano worksheet, students use an on line source to answer fifteen fill in the blank questions about volcanoes around the world.
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Zoo Welcomes Baby Animals

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners engage in activities to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. In these animal lessons, students use vocabulary and comprehension skills to gain a better understanding of endangered animals. They also watch video...
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Animal Groups

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore animal groups. In this animal science lesson, students use pictures from magazines and classify the animals into five categories. Students share why they categorized the animals the way they did.
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Environment Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this environment vocabulary instructional activity, students draw lines to match 13 words to their definitions in another column. Words pertain to the environment. Examples: biosphere, habitat, greenhouse effect, smog.
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Pulp Friction

For Students 8th - 10th
For this reading comprehension worksheet, students have 12 minutes to read a text entitled "Pulp Friction" and answer comprehension questions based on the article. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.

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